SATURDAY
Bluey's Big Play - The Stage Show Saturday & Sunday, Civic Theatre, Hunter St, Newcastle. The most lovable dog family on Australian TV is live on stage for sessions at 6.30pm Saturday and 9.30am and 12.30pm Sunday.
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Get It Together Youth Festival Pasterfield Sports Complex, 20 Horizon Avenue, Cameron Park, 2-5pm. Activities include live music, DJ, open mic for local musicians and performers, art workshops, a skate, scooter and BMX demonstration and comp, a youth craft market, food stalls & community group and service stalls.
House Plant Revival Saturday & Sunday, The Edwards, 148 Parry St, Newcastle West, 9am to 3pm. Grab a coffee or beer and take a walk through The Edwards beer garden filled with 2500 locally grown and sourced indoor plants for sale.
Maitland Shred Harold Gregson Skate Park, 174 High St, Maitland, 10am to 4pm. Maitland Shred is open to novices, more advanced, and even professional skaters. Prizes will be awarded for best trick, biggest air and longest grind or manual.
Mitch Revs Colouring Book Launch Mitch Revs Gallery, 451 Hunter St, Newcastle.
Pixar Putt Saturday & Sunday, Wheeler Place, Hunter St, Newcastle, 7-9.30pm. If you haven't taken the kids down to play mini golf among Buzz and Woody, Sunday will be your final chance.
Sail Port Stephens Saturday & Sunday, D'Albora Marinas, Nelson Bay. The wealth of sailing action includes the prestigious NSW IRC Championships.
Young Champions Warners Bay Theatre, Lake St & John St, Warners Bay, 2-4pm. Outstanding young performers from the Lake Macquarie Eisteddfod, MTS Scholarships and HSC exams.
Youth Week Out West Wallsend Skate Park, 93 Cowper Street, Wallsend, 1-5pm. An afternoon of tunes, games and a free BBQ. The event will feature a skate demo from the crew at Laate followed by a free skate, so bring your wheels.
SUNDAY
Two-up Multiple venues across Newcastle and Hunter. For one day every year pubs and clubs across Australia and New Zealand let the pennies fly in this beloved ANZAC tradition.
ANZAC Day at Fort Scratchley Nobbys Road, Newcastle East, 12-4pm. Fort Scratchley will be open to the public on ANZAC Day, with the firing of the guns at 1pm and 3pm.
ANZAC Day at Gallipoli Legion Club Beaumont St, Hamilton, 9am to 8pm. With the usual ANZAC service in Gregson Park cancelled due to COVID-safe restrictions, punters can attend the Gallipoli Legion Club from 9am for breakfast, a remembrance ceremony at 11am and DJ.
SAVE THE DATE
Newcastle Comedy Festival Gala Saturday, May 28 at the Civic Theatre, Newcastle. The third edition of Newcastle's premier comedic showcase features some of Australia's finest stand-up performers in Amos Gill, Cam Knight, Tom Ballard, Daniel Muggleton, Sarah Gaul, Luke Heggie, Nick Capper, Gen Fricker, Tommy Dassalo, Michelle Brasier, Randy Feltface and Andy Saunders.
MARKETS
Aussie Night Markets Saturday & Sunday, Morisset Showgrounds, 40 Ourimbah St, Morisset, 4-10pm.
Clarence Town Markets Saturday, corner of Prince and Durham St, Clarence Town.
Dungog Local Growers Stall Saturday, 205 Dowling Street, Dungog.
Handmade In The Hunter Market Saturday, Kevin Sobel's Wines, Halls Road, Pokolbin, 9am to 3pm.
Homegrown Markets Saturday, The Station, Newcastle, 9am to 2pm.
Newcastle City Farmers Market Sunday, Newcastle Showground, Broadmeadow, 7am to 1pm.
Lake Macquarie Farmers Market Saturday, Speers Point Park, Speers Point, 7am to 1pm.
Port Stephens Market Saturday, Port Stephens Church of Christ, Nelson Bay Road, Salt Ash, 9am to 1pm.
Tomaree Markets Sunday, Neil Carroll Park, Shoal Bay Road, Nelson Bay, 8am to 2pm.
Youth Artisan Market Saturday, Pasterfield Sports Complex, 20 Horizon Avenue, Cameron Park, 2-5pm.
MUSIC
Bleu Collective & Luna Menta Saturday, Lass O'Gowrie Hotel, Wickham. Local bands Bleu Collective & Luna Menta deliver the jazz vibes.
In Hearts Wake Saturday, Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle West. Hardcore band In Hearts Wake take a different tact by performing an unplugged show in the Warehouse. Angie Hudson is on support.
John Paul Young & The All-Star Band Saturday, Toronto Hotel, Toronto. Good ole' JPY is back at his local stomping ground in Lake Macquarie for an afternoon of classic hits.
Matt Cross Saturday, Oriental Hotel, Cooks Hill. The Newcastle songwriter launches his debut album Take Your Time with his five-piece band.
Minnie Marks Saturday, Stag and Hunter Hotel, Mayfield. The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist delivers a dirty sweet brand of rock'n'roll.
Mi-Sex Saturday, Lizotte's, Lambton. The Computer Games legends return with Steve Balbi taking frontman duties.
Mucho Sonar, The Grounds, Trashed Again Sunday, Lass O'Gowrie Hotel, Wickham. Newcastle punk rock band Mucho Sonar finally perform their first hometown show since the release of their 2020 EP Murdochracy.
Piper Butcher Saturday, Hiss & Crackle Records, Wallsend, 12pm. The Newcastle 16-year-old will perform a host of originals, including her upcoming single Haunting Your Thoughts.
Sloan Peterson Saturday, Hamilton Station Hotel, Hamilton. The Sydney indie-pop singer-songwriter is promoting her new single Moon & Back on her first national headline tour. Central Coast's Eluera is on support.
MOVIES
Dragon Rider (PG) Firedrake, the young silver dragon, has had enough of constantly having to hide in a wooded valley. He wants to show the older generation that he is a real dragon.
Every Breath You Take (MA) A psychiatrist, whose client commits suicide, finds his family life disrupted after introducing her surviving brother to his wife and daughter.
Godzilla Vs Kong (M) In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity's fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.
Nobody (MA) Hutch Mansell is an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life's indignities on the chin and never pushing back.
Mortal Kombat (R) MMA fighter Cole Young seeks out Earth's greatest champions in order to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high-stakes battle for the universe.
Peter Rabbit 2 (G) The lovable rogue is back. Bea, Thomas, and the rabbits have created a makeshift family, but despite his best efforts, Peter can't seem to shake his mischievous reputation.
Promising Young Woman (MA) Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman... until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future.
Raya and The Last Dragon (PG) Take an epic journey to the fantasy world of Kumandra, where humans and dragons lived together long ago in harmony.
Six Minutes To Midnight (M) 17 days before WWII, an English teacher and his camera disappear on a coastal boarding school with 20 German teen girls. Miller gets the job six days later, secretly trying to find out what happened.
Supernova (M) Sam and Tusker have spent 20 years together, and they are as passionately in love as they have ever been. However, in the two years since Tusker was diagnosed, their lives have had to change.
The Courier (M) Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Father (M) Anthony Hopkins plays the eponymous role of a mischievous and highly independent man who, as he ages, refuses all assistance from his daughter.
The Unholy (M) Alice is a young hearing-impaired girl who, after a supposed visitation from the Virgin Mary, is inexplicably able to hear, speak and heal the sick.
The United States Vs Billie Holiday (MA) Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black federal agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she had a tumultuous affair.
This Little Love Of Mine (G) A successful San Francisco lawyer returns to the tropical island she grew up on, only to reconnect with her true self, and her true love.
Tom & Jerry (G) One of the most beloved rivalries in history is reignited when Jerry moves into New York City's finest hotel on the eve of "the wedding of the century," forcing the event's desperate planner to hire Tom to get rid of him.